Huffines Institute - Podcasts

Today we have another interesting guest from the world of sports medicine and human performance! Dr. Matt Jensen is a former professional rower with several World Championship and World Cup medals for Canada who recently published a study on the effects of a carbohydrate mouth rinse! The study focusses on cycling time trials and how something as simple as a mouthwash can actually marginally improve results, which can be the difference in 1st or 15th place on the professional stage for high-perfo...

Today we have a special guest from the world of Law, our very own Dr. Natasha Brison from our Division of Sports Management. Dr. Brison discusses her work with athletic endorsements, advertisement, and enforcement from the FTC. If you've seen ads, then this is a conversation for you!

For more information about this week’s Human Performance Minute, check out the links listed below. Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

We are pleased to have Dr. Samuel Cheuvront from the United States Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in the podcast today. Dr. Cheuvront is a noted expert on hydration during exercise and was one of the principle authors of the military's policies on hydration for our soldiers. And just because it is getting cooler doesn't mean that we shouldn't worry about hydration.

We are pleased to have Mr. Kevin Bastin, Director of Athletic Training Services for the Ironman Sports Medicine Institute at Memorial Hermann Hospital with us in the podcast. We chat about athletic training and rehabilitation of elite athletes and recreational athletes. It's a fun conversation!

We've got Dr. Ross Tucker, from the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa in the podcast today. Ross is currently on the management team of the South African National Sevens team (you'll have to listen to find out what Sevens is), is one of the most astute and well-spoken young Exercise Physiologists in the world, and has been heavily involved in the debate about whether Oscar Pistorius should be allowed to compete against able-body track athletes.

We've got a great conversation with Mr. Adam Davis who is the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Stewart-Haas Racing, the parent company of the race teams of Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman in NASCAR's Spring Cup Championship Series. We talk about strength training of pit crew athletes and injury issues for the pit crew athlete (what? You don't think they are athletes? Then listen to the podcast and comment!) Given the current drama in the Sprint Cup series over the last two weeks, th...

It's still hot outside - so we all need to be very aware of hydration state to prevent heat-related illnesses. Join us as we talk to Dr. Mindy Millard-Stafford, a well-published and nationally known expert on hydration during exercise.

There are people that have the urge to run for long, long distances...We have the pleasure of talking to Ultra Runner Extraordinaire Dr. Mike Sandlin in the podcast this week. Join us to find about what it takes to run extremely long distances (more than 26 miles!). This is a great conversation filled with laughs....

It's almost summer! Let's get ready! From the Gatorade Sport Science Institute, Research Director Dr. Jeff Zachwieja joins us to talk about hydration and exercise in the heat. Certainly a timely topic for us all!